Shades of solidarity: Comparing Scottish and Flemish responses to Catalonia

Sijstermans, Judith; Swan, Coree Brown

doi:10.1080/13597566.2021.1881064

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“…This is true at the subnational level. The Catalan and Scottish cases illustrate this dramatically, and numerous reforms in unitary countries reflect the same process in less spectacular fashion (Saarts, 2020; Sijstermans & Brown Swan, 2021; Trinn & Schulte, 2020). The same logic operates at the national level too.…”

Section: The Architecture Of Compromise: Between Autonomy and Interdependencementioning

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The territorial architecture of government

2021

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This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel as national governments have shifted authority both downwards to subnational governments and upwards to international and supranational institutions. Next, we argue that this multilevel structure emanates from a tension between the drive to reap the functional benefits of scale diversity in a globalizing economy and the pressures arising from collective self‐rule. We build on the research in this special issue to highlight some tangible effects of this tension for policy, politics, and polity. Subnational and supranational governance are conventionally perceived as separate phenomena with distinct consequences, and yet they are intimately connected in a fluid territorial architecture of multilevel governance.

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Section: The Architecture Of Compromise: Between Autonomy and Interdependencementioning

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The territorial architecture of government

2021

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“…During the past decades, sub‐state nationalist (or ‘regionalist’) parties have been remarkably successful in regions like Catalonia, Flanders, Scotland and Québec. In fact, these parties often stress similarities in both their strategy and their popular appeal (Sijstermans & Brown Swan, 2021). Although the multidimensionality of sub‐state nationalist parties has been investigated in cases like Scotland (Lynch, 2009), Catalonia (Balcells et al, 2021) and Québec (Blanchet & Medeiros, 2019; Erk, 2005), no such study is yet available for Belgium.…”

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Nationalist identities, preferences and voting for sub‐state nationalist parties in the Flemish region of Belgium

Hooghe

Stiers

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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There is an ongoing academic debate about the question whether sub-state nationalist parties should be considered as niche parties, focusing almost exclusively on their core issue of centre-periphery relations, or whether their electoral appeal can be considered as multidimensional. In that case, these other dimensions can vary with regard to the specific ideological position, historical circumstances and strategic considerations. In this article, we address this theoretical question by relying on the case study of the substate nationalist parties in the Flemish region of Belgium, where they jointly obtained 44% of the vote in the most recent elections. Comparing election surveys from 2009, 2014 and 2019 suggests that the electoral appeal of these parties rests on a mixture of nationalist issues, right-wing economic policies and a restrictive attitude towards immigration. These results suggest that sub-state nationalist parties are not purely niche parties, but should be seen as multiple issue parties, and this broader electoral appeal can explain the discrepancy between electoral results and public opinion on the core issues of these parties.

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